“Occupy Oakland” protesters march through downtown after police cleared the demonstrators from their camp at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in the morning. Watch live video, courtesy of ABC7, below: Click here for an alternative live stream.

Police fired tear gas at “Occupy Oakland” protesters on Tuesday night as a group of hundreds assembled outside City Hall. Early Tuesday morning, hundreds of police surrounded protesters at their small tent city in Frank H. Ogawa...

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain strange new campaign ad, which features his chief of staff talking about the candidate and blowing smoke into the camera, quickly became an online sensation after it was discovered on Monday. Radio...

OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) – Police and protesters scuffled in Northern California on Tuesday as more than 1,000 people marched on city hall in Oakland to voice anger over arrests at an “Occupy Wall Street” camp. Police...

BRASILIA — Thousands of people still toil in forced labor in Brazil, despite government attempts to curtail the practice, the International Labour Organization said in a new report. Since 1995, more than 40,000 people have been rescued from...

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked part of new North Carolina law that requires abortion providers to show women an ultrasound and describe the images in detail four hours before having an abortion. The law also requires doctors to offer women...

This month marks the 20th anniversary of Clarence Thomas's Senate hearings that led to his confirmation as a Supreme Court justice, which the country has been paying dearly for ever since. The whole thing was a disaster, of course, but one...

Egyptian activist Asmaa Mahfouz spoke to Amy Goodman of Democracy Now on Tuesday at the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstration in lower Manhattan. “Many of U.S. residents were in solidarity with us,” she said. “So, we...

WASHINGTON — The White House on Tuesday announced a high powered delegation to accompany Vice President Joe Biden to offer condolences to Saudi Arabia over the death of Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz. Biden will be accompanied by senior...

WASHINGTON — Andy Rooney, 92, a US television legend for his weekly rants on “60 Minutes,” is in stable condition after undergoing surgery not long after his final broadcast, the CBS network said Tuesday. “Andy Rooney underwent...

WASHINGTON — The UN Security Council should refer credible charges of crimes against humanity by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the International Criminal Court (ICC), US senators urged Tuesday. In a letter to Washington’s UN envoy,...

NEW YORK — IBM on Tuesday named Virginia Rometty, the head of sales, marketing and strategy, to take over as chief executive on January 1, making her the first woman to lead the US computer giant. The 54-year-old, who is also a senior vice...

WASHINGTON — Technicians in Texas closed a chapter on the Cold War on Tuesday, dismantling the oldest, biggest and most powerful nuclear bomb in the US arsenal, officials said. The last B-53 bomb — built in 1962, the year of the Cuban...

SAN FRANCISCO — US President Barack Obama forcefully argued Tuesday that he had honored the passionate demands for change that swept him to the White House, including in the operation that killed Osama bin Laden. On a western campaign swing, the...

California Assemblymember Tom Ammiano (D) said last week that the federal government’s crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries would cost the state millions of dollars in lost revenue. In early October, U.S. Attorneys threatened to...